JFA Presents: Rene McLean & Music of the Spirit, Bertha Hope 5tet, Baba Don Babatunde
October 14, 2021 6:00 pm - October 14, 2021 8:30 pm
Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater | Free
In partnership with NYCParks - Arts, Culture & Fun
Rene McLean & Music of the Spirit, Bertha Hope 5tet, Baba Don Babatunde
Rene McLean & Music of the Spirit
Born in New York City, Rene McLean is a world renowned saxophonist, composer, band leader, educator and producer. He began his musical training at the age of 9 under the tutelage and guidance of his father, the great Jackie McLean, and started leading his own bands at the age of 16. He has performed and recorded with the creme de la creme of Black Musical tradition: Jackie McLean, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente, Horace Silver, Babatunde Olatunji, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Dexter Gordon, Yusef Lateef, as well as in collaboration with poet-activist Amiri Baraka. He is presently Professor of African American Music on the faculty of the Jackie McLean Institute at The Hartt School, University of Hartford.
Bertha Hope 5tet
One of jazz's living legends, pianist/composer Bertha Hope has toured globally with artists like Nat Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie and Eddie Henderson, while being a respected educator and bandleader in her own right, with several albums under her leadership. In 2018 she won the National Jazz Museum in Harlem's Legends of Jazz Award.
Baba Don Babatunde
Percussionist Baba Don Babatunde has performed with dance companies around the world, and recorded with a wide variety of artists in the jazz idiom, rhythm and blues, and most African-derived percussion styles, all while being a featured member of the esteemed Last Poets. An acknowledged master teacher of African Drumming and the rhythms of the Diaspora in the Americas, he has been on faculty at the Harlem School Of the Arts for over 25 years.
Presented by the Jazz Foundation of America, with partial support from the National Endowment for the Arts, NYS Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Rene McLean & Music of the Spirit, Bertha Hope 5tet, Baba Don Babatunde
Rene McLean & Music of the Spirit
Born in New York City, Rene McLean is a world renowned saxophonist, composer, band leader, educator and producer. He began his musical training at the age of 9 under the tutelage and guidance of his father, the great Jackie McLean, and started leading his own bands at the age of 16. He has performed and recorded with the creme de la creme of Black Musical tradition: Jackie McLean, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente, Horace Silver, Babatunde Olatunji, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Dexter Gordon, Yusef Lateef, as well as in collaboration with poet-activist Amiri Baraka. He is presently Professor of African American Music on the faculty of the Jackie McLean Institute at The Hartt School, University of Hartford.
Bertha Hope 5tet
One of jazz's living legends, pianist/composer Bertha Hope has toured globally with artists like Nat Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie and Eddie Henderson, while being a respected educator and bandleader in her own right, with several albums under her leadership. In 2018 she won the National Jazz Museum in Harlem's Legends of Jazz Award.
Baba Don Babatunde
Percussionist Baba Don Babatunde has performed with dance companies around the world, and recorded with a wide variety of artists in the jazz idiom, rhythm and blues, and most African-derived percussion styles, all while being a featured member of the esteemed Last Poets. An acknowledged master teacher of African Drumming and the rhythms of the Diaspora in the Americas, he has been on faculty at the Harlem School Of the Arts for over 25 years.
Presented by the Jazz Foundation of America, with partial support from the National Endowment for the Arts, NYS Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the Howard Gilman Foundation.
